A collection of new photographs and archive images of skies manipulated to appear uncannily blue, flawless and imply a positive future. The images are printed using inks that slowly degrade when subjected to sunlight and purposely fade over time suggesting that optimism is a valuable yet fragile state of mind.
Working with the London Metropolitan Police Safer Neighbourhoods Team selected works were developed for display outside Police stations across East London.
UV sensitive ink jet prints, 2012
Installation at Isle of Dogs Police Station, London, 2012
Optimism Revisited, 52 Skies
Installation at Bow Road Police Station, London, 2012
Documentation of an evening at the Ex-Servicemens Club in Leytonstone, East London, established in 1922 and still thriving. The photo-essay focuses on the fabric and ephemera of the club and its members. The photographs are exhibited in frames sourced from second-hand shops from the area.
C-type prints, 2009
Meet: Photographs of Local Social Groups
Co-curated exhibition of community engaged photographs by photography collective Image 17 at The Old Glass Factory in Wathamstow, East London, 2009.
The project documented the plethora of local leisure and social groups within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Fourteen Photographers took part, documenting thirty local hobby and leisure groups ranging from the familiar to the highly unusual, celebrating the diversity of characters and activities in Waltham Forest.
The exhibition was widely publicised and resulted in interviews on the Robert Elms Radio show for BBC Radio London, local and national press coverage.
The exhibition was held in the industrial style premises of an old glass factory and held over the four days of the 2009 Art Trail. A private view was attended by guests, including the groups that featured in Meet together with artists, gallery owners, press and representatives from arts organisations, including, Tate Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, The Sunday Times and local newspapers.
Influenced by vintage postcards this series depicts views of east London as 1970s idealised picture postcard images transforming them into hyperreal places of interest.
C-Type prints, 2010
Carpenters Road
Hollow Pond
Central Parade
Town Hall
Coronation Gardens
Link Road
Friendship Way
Argon Road
The Walthamstow Tapestry (after Grayson Perry)
A 15 metre installation documenting the lives and surroundings of inhabitants of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. A community focussed exhibition by photography collective Image 17 in unused office space in Wathamstow. The salon hang of 142 photographic prints emulates the narrative and scale of Grayson Perry’s eponymous artwork. Twelve photographers took part exploring themes such as the cycle of Life from birth to death, advertising and consumerism.
By working in collaboration with each other, the artists were able to challenge the way they work, the nature of ownership and reflect on collective responsibility within the local community. Each artist's work was interspersed with the others, operating on multiple levels creating connections picture by picture, developing series within series, ultimately creating a single large collective visual journey spread out and displayed as part of a single group installation.
The exhibition was held at Tower Mews a large vacant new building opposite Walthamstow’s central station. The central position meant the exhibition was easily accessible and attracted overt a thousand visitors during its ten day duration.
The work was widely publicised and included in the press previews attended by several national Art publications and a selection of daily tabloids held by the E17 Art Trail prior to the public opening.
The private view was attended by members of the community that featured in the Tapestry, together with artists, gallery owners, press and representatives from arts organisations, Tate Gallery, The Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Oona King, Stella Creasy MP and Jennette Arnold OBE.
